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I saw a review whereby the installation offers

KDE 3.5, 4.0

Gnome

how immature is KDE 4.0 in usage, does this mean it crashes or is it wonky?

Opensuse installation screenshot

I think I'll install this on my new laptop after I make the install DVD from my windows install(Compaq Laptop)

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The current KDE 4 release is much more stable than the previous releases. I've been using it (alongside KDE3.5) for about a month and it has proven to be very reliable. Now, the answer to your question should depend on what you want to do with your system, what it's going to be used for. If it is a productive system would recommend you to wait a bit more before jumping into KDE4. If on the other hand you use your system to do "normal desktop user stuff" (browse the web, music, chat, (...)) go with KDE4. It's a new desktop experience that (in my opinion) is worth trying out.

Have a look here for a small presentation of the KDE4 desktop:

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=686526

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I'll be using my system for Photography. to store them when I'm away from home and work on them. it will be strictly a photography system and web surfing system when away from home

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Don't see any issue there. Also, other desktop environments will later be available for installation using the SUSE package manager, in case you don't like the choice made during system installation.

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How hard is it to install ATI Drivers on KDE4.0?

It's damn near impossible in Gnome.

The video drivers are installed in X, not in your desktop environment.

The procedures (and difficulties, in your case) would be identical.

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How hard is it to install ATI Drivers on KDE4.0?

It's damn near impossible in Gnome.

Yap, like mark said, drivers do not depend on your desktop environment. It should depend more on your distro, and that is the same as saying that it depends on the package that goes with your distro. Are you also using SUSE?

Most distros cannot provide the ATI driver as it is a Proprietary Driver, not under the GPL License, but under a restrictive proprietary license.

With that said you should have the choice of downloading it, using the above mentioned package manager, or choose to download it from the AMD/ATI official site and make a manual installation: http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.HTML

The second choice involves a bit more of work as it needs some extra packages to be installed in your system (Kernel Header/Kernel Source, compilation tools).

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Its pretty nice, even with the lousy Intel chipset on my machine. I'm using KDE 4.1.2 in openSUSE 11.0, but 11.1 is coming out in 40 days so you might want to wait for that. I'm looking forward to Digikam for KDE4 :D

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Yap, like mark said, drivers do not depend on your desktop environment. It should depend more on your distro, and that is the same as saying that it depends on the package that goes with your distro. Are you also using SUSE?

Most distros cannot provide the ATI driver as it is a Proprietary Driver, not under the GPL License, but under a restrictive proprietary license.

With that said you should have the choice of downloading it, using the above mentioned package manager, or choose to download it from the AMD/ATI official site and make a manual installation: http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.HTML

The second choice involves a bit more of work as it needs some extra packages to be installed in your system (Kernel Header/Kernel Source, compilation tools).

Yeah, I wish they would install like Ubuntu's..

I tried installing them and configuring them in xorg.conf.. but I forget what happened.. I think I got a white screen.. and no way to fix it.

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